Wireless MiniPCI card issues under Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty

[Robert Menes]

Greetings, fellow Kubuntu users!

I'm trying to set up a miniPCI WiFi card on my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 8500
running Kubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn".

The original card that came with the laptop (Dell Truemobile 1300 series
IIRC) was damaged by heat, so I purchased a
new Dell Truemobile 1470 card off eBay and installed it. The card shows up
as eth2 in KDE's Network Settings, with the
built-in Ethernet as eth0 and the original card as eth1. I have DHCP enabled
for both devices.

lsmod shows a bcm43xx module with a size of 126824 loaded, used by 0. This
bcm43xx also gives me errors on startup,
often of the "module not found or loaded" variety.

Every time I try enabling eth2 (the new card), it immediately disables
itself.

Linux is obviously *seeing *the card, but it's not allowing me to *use *it.

Can anyone be able to give me some pointers as to how to get this card to
enable and stay enabled? I have no more access to
a direct connection at home, and really need to do a system update.

Thanks to all,
--Rob
(Linux user who doesn't do Windows)
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